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40 best colleges for the money

Money magazine has released its rating of the four-year colleges that offer the most for the tuition paid. Schools were ranked on 17 factors in three categories: educational quality, affordability, and alumni earnings. Take a look at the colleges that give you the best bang for your buck.

40 (tie) Manhattan College / New York

Cost of degree: $161,500 / Early career salary: $55,200/yr

40 (tie) University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Cost of degree: $84,100 / Early career salary: $44,200/yr

#39 Washington & Lee University / Virginia

Cost of degree: $149,400 / Early career salary: $48,000/yr

#37 (tie) Georgetown University / Washington, D.C.

Cost of degree: $204,500 / Early career salary: $53,000/yr

#37 (tie) University of Washington - Bothell

Cost of degree: $125,700 / Early career salary: $52,100/yr

#32 (tie) Duke University / North Carolina

Cost of degree: $192,800 / Early career salary: $55,900/yr

#32 (tie) University of California -- Irvine

Cost of degree: $192,800 / Early career salary: $48,900/yr

#32 (tie) Principia College / Illinois

Cost of degree: $65,500 / Early career salary: $42,200/yr

#32 (tie) Lehigh University / Pennsylvania

Cost of degree: $190,600 / Early career salary: $58,500/yr

#32 (tie) Swarthmore College / Pennsylvania

Cost of degree: $174,800 / Early career salary: $51,000/yr

#31 University of California -- Los Angeles

Cost of degree: $126,700 / Early career salary: $49,600/yr

#28 (tie) Lafayette College / Pennsylvania

Cost of degree: $178,400 / Early career salary: $57,600/yr

#28 (tie) University of Florida

Cost of degree: $87,000 / Early career salary: $47,600/yr

#28 (tie) Bentley University / Massachusetts

Cost of degree: $177,500 / Early career salary: $54,700/yr

#27 Colgate University / New York

Cost of degree: $186,500 / Early career salary: $51,800/yr

#24 (tie) Dartmouth College/ New Hampshire

Cost of degree: $189,080 / Early career salary: $51,900/yr

#24 (tie) Cornell University / New York

Cost of degree: $194,300 / Early career salary: $57,000/yr

#24 (tie) Texas A & M

Cost of degree: $86,000 / Early career salary: $51,900/yr

#22 (tie) Columbia University / New York

Cost of degree: $206,800 / Early career salary: $57,600/yr

#22 (tie) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Cost of degree: $94,500 / Early career salary: $54,000/yr

#20 (tie) Notre Dame / Indiana

Cost of degree: $185,500 / Early career salary: $54,000/yr

#20 (tie) Rice University / Texas

Cost of degree: $149,900 / Early career salary: $55,700/yr

#19 Brown University / Rhode Island

Cost of degree: $192,000 / Early career salary: $52,300/yr

#18 Virginia Military Institute

Cost of degree: $89,100 / Early career salary: $54,200/yr

#17 Amherst College/Massachusetts

Cost of degree: $156,700 / Early career salary: $53,000/yr

#16 University of Virginia

Cost of degree: $94,100 / Early career salary: $53,000/yr

#15 Yale University / Connecticut

Cost of degree: $182,800 / Early career salary: $50,000/yr

#14 Williams College / Massachusetts

Cost of degree: $168,600 / Early career salary: $50,400/yr

#13 University of California - Berkeley

Cost of degree: $126,800 / Early career salary: $54,700/yr

#12 Maine Maritime Academy

Cost of degree: $105,000 / Early career salary: $64,100/yr

#11 University of Pennsylvania

Cost of degree: $201,600 / Early career salary: $57,200/yr

#10 California Institute of Technology

Cost of degree: $174,800 / Early career salary: $68,400/yr

#9 Brigham Young University / Utah

Cost of degree: $82,000 / Early career salary: $50,000/yr

#8 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art / New York

Cost of degree: $146,800 / Early career salary: $61,400/yr

#7 Harvey Mudd College / California

Cost of degree: $187,700 / Early career salary: $73,300/yr

#6 Harvard University / Massachusetts

Cost of degree: $181,200 / Early career salary: $55,300/yr

#5 Stanford University / California

Cost of degree: $168,800 / Early career salary: $61,300/yr

#4 Princeton University / New Jersey

Cost of degree: $146,200 / Early career salary: $56,100/yr

#3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cost of degree: $154,800 / Early career salary: $68,600/yr

#2 Webb Institute / New York

Cost of degree: $77,600 / Early career salary: $65,400/yr

#1 Babson College / Massachusetts

Cost of degree: $198,900 / Early career salary: $59,700/yr

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